Networking4DaWeekend

A gigabit interface converter (GBIC) is a standard for transceivers,
 commonly used with Gigabit Ethernet and fibre channel in the 1990s.
  By offering a standard, hot swappable electrical interface, one gigabit port
   can support a wide range of physical media,
    from copper to long-wave single-mode optical fiber, at lengths of hundreds of kilometers.

A variation of the GBIC called the small form-factor pluggable transceiver (SFP), (aka mini-GBIC)
 ...same functionality ...smaller form factor (from 2001 it largely made the GBIC obsolete)

interface needs media-type specified

shortwave =multimode ...up to 860m
longwave =singlemode ...up to  100's of km

world wide names
  wwNN = node
  wwPN = port

 

HP AJ715A Short Wave B-series Fibre Channel SFP (mini-GBIC) Module

4Gbps